Antonio Gabrić

I help people write cold emails that convert 🚀 | Marketing @ Hunter.io

Hey! I'm Antonio. I help SaaS companies grow their brand's presence and revenue with outbound marketing.

Building backlinks that move the needle is hard. Here's how I can help you:

- Set up hyper-personalized and automated link building outreach campaigns
- Build contextual backlinks from relevant DR70+ domains at scale
- Get your brand featured on Hubspot, Zapier, Wordstream, and more
- List your brand in high-traffic listicles (top X tools)
- Grow your brand's presence, authority, and revenue

Why me?

- Grew Hunter's organic monthly sessions from 100k to 300k
- Built semi-automated processes for effective link building (7,000+ referring domains in 2 years)
- Sent tailored outreach campaigns with 12% conversion rates
- Featured on industry-leading websites such as Hubspot, Zapier, Wordstream, and many more
- Managing a Slack community with over 100 active SaaS link builders (SERanking, Toptal, Hubspot, and others)

Ready to leverage link building to grow your SaaS into a multi-million dollar success?

🔔 I'll be posting SEO and cold email case studies – so hit that "Follow" button! 

Cheers,
Antonio.

Outreach Manager

Some of the current responsibilities and achievements:

- leading the link building at Hunter
- establishing and reworking processes
- hiring freelancers
- managing a team of link builders and writers
- running a Slack community of amazing link builders
- experimenting with different outreach approaches
- managing affiliate program approvals
- working with influencers
- ensuring Hunter is featured on most authority industry-relevant websites consistently
- increasing organic traffic by 78%

I’m looking for 20 people to join an exclusive SEO partnership circle.

The vibe: 
✅ Real SaaS brands only (No PBNs/Farms)
✅ High-authority guest post collabs (Zapier, Moz, G2, and more)
✅ Editor intros & networking 
✅ Bi-monthly "Win/Fail" syncs
✅ Weekly catch-ups to discuss new strategies and tactics

If you’re tired of shouting into the void and want a small community of peers to grow with, this is for you.

The keyword: "Value".

Comment "SaaS" below, and I'll send you the details.

(I'll go through all comments and messages. But, I'll just respond to people who meet the criteria (e.g., not interested in resellers, agencies, etc.))

Marketing @ Hunter.io | Author on Moz, Zapier, G2 & 50+ top industry sites | Writing on SEO, content marketing, B2B sales & lead generation

Only 1 in 20 cold emails gets a reply.

My colleague Ziemek Bućko did a fantastic job analyzing 31 million emails and pulling this report together. I went through the findings and pulled the 14 stats that actually move the needle.

Some of these surprised me:
→ Turning off open tracking increases reply rates by 68% 
→ Emailing 21–50 people outperforms blasting 500+ by 158% 
→ 3 follow-ups double replies. 4+ kills them. 
→ LinkedIn is now the preferred channel for 50.5% of decision makers

Cold email isn't dead. Lazy cold email is.

The full breakdown is in the carousel 👇

Drop your biggest takeaway in the comments. Curious what resonates most.

(Full report link in the comments)

Email outreach stats

If someone told me you could win $1,000 by writing one email, I'd have laughed.

Which means most people reading this won't bother entering.

Less competition for you.

Messaging Madness 2026: entries close tomorrow, March 10. 

Write one outreach email based on a real scenario. It goes into a public bracket, head-to-head voting rounds, until one winner takes $1,000.

I'm judging one of the 4 scenarios myself.

10 minutes to write. $1,000 to win.

Full details + entry form below

Messaging Madness 2026

Can you write an email worth $1,000? Let’s find out.

Messaging Madness 2026 is officially back. 🎉

Last year, we launched an experiment: a bracket-style tournament to find the world’s best outreach. We saw thousands of votes and one undeniable truth: the "spray and pray" era is dead.

This year, the stakes are higher, the scenarios are tougher, and the philosophy has shifted.

From "Cold" to "Outreach"

In 2025, we called it a cold email competition. We were wrong.

Looking at the winning entries, none of them felt "cold." When you research a prospect and understand their pain so deeply that your message lands at the exact right moment, that’s not an intrusion. That’s a solution.

The theme for 2026: 

Turning a cold lead into a warm conversation through human-to-human connection.

How the Messaging Madness works:

Pick your scenario: Choose one of four specific prompts.
Write your email: Craft the perfect initial outreach.
The Selection: Our judges pick the Top 64 entries.
The Bracket: You go head-to-head in 6 rounds of public voting.

What we learned from the 2025 winners (@anne kar:

Relevance > Cleverness: "Smart" copy loses to "helpful" copy every time.

Length is a myth: Value-packed 200-word emails beat generic 50-word ones.

Be Human: If you sound like an AI template, you’ve already lost.

🏆 The Prize:

The "Follow-up 4" (Semi-finalists) all get a year of Hunter’s Starter plan.
The Champion takes home $1,000 cash.

📅 The Key Dates:

Entry Deadline: March 10

Bracket Announcement: March 16

First Round Voting: March 17

Stop sending spam. Start writing outreach that actually gets a reply.

I’m dropping the link to the scenarios and the entry form in the comments below. 👇

I’m the dream SEO content-writing guy for your website’s blog or business/brand. I write reader-centric + rank-worthy SEO articles & blogs. | SEO Content Writer | Website copywriter. 💱

If you don’t have a website for your business or hate organic growth…DON’T read this about section, there’s nothing for you. 

And if you have one, you’re my kind of people, and I love you.

So…you own a business/website, and after trying so many paid stuff, you finally realize that you need sustainable organic growth.

You have two options; 
1. Hire an SEO specialist from Fiverr for keyword research & strategy, and then hire someone from Upwork to write the content, and then find someone who can upload and manage all the website headaches. 

2. You hire Saiqic. And meet a Saiqo who knows all of this shit on a bigger-picture level. Got an SEO specialist and a website developer/manager in one place. You communicate everything to one person (that’s me; Saiqo). It’s smooth. You will get SEO (on-page, off-page, technical) + content strategy + writing + website management in one place. 

The problem with option #1? You waste a lot of time (you’ll be talking to 4 different people)  and money (yes, paying individuals is costly). And it really takes longer to get the results.

The problem with the 2nd one? I can’t think of any ATM. Can you? 
Worst thing that can happen is you won’t get the results we promise you in the first 2-3 months. And that’s when Saiqoz (Me & my little team) work for free UNTIL you get the promised results. 

And I don’t promise something I can’t deliver. 

So…
Win-win. 

Now, if you have any questions about the Saiqic process (or why the name’s Saiqic) or even why your website impressions/traffic is down since last month…talk to me. I love talking about this stuff.

Shafiq Saiq(o)

I refused to go for a 9-5 ‘stable’ job & chose freelancing in 2021. 
I now work almost every waking hr haha. 


Do I regret it? Sometimes. 

Will I go for a stable 9-5 if I get a chance? No.
Even when I think about it, it gives me a shudder. An ick.  

This freelance/writing/content is my identity. 
Mere gaon waly mujhe ‘laptop wala lrka’ kehty. 
And Saiqic is my dream. Im working on it. 

And these days, sch btaun tw mein kangla hun clients k mamly m. 

There’s so much new stuff I’m learning while building Saiqic. 
& TBH, money for now is not my worry. 

Jaib m dhela nai lkn mn kam k nashy mein hu, haha. 

Sometimes, I feel so uncertain about everything going on in our SEO content industry. AI, AGI, ASI…who knows, in 2030, there’d be ASI (artificial super intelligence) and no one would need websites, content SEO…tw kia hoga hmri Saiqic ka?

But my gut feelings…got good vibes about it. 
Khwab dekhne wali ankhen veeran nai rehti hyn. 

Bss itna e kehna tha..ptaa nai q. 

Remember me in your prayers. 
+ If you have any question rltd to SEO/content, feel free to drop me a DM.

#mrsaiqo
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Saiqo running Saiqic. I grow businesses with SEO/AISEO + content & get results across Google & LLMs in 60-90 days using my Saiqic method. If not, I keep working for FREE until it does.

Traditional SEO has died. And they say, apparently, no one reads your website these days. 

So, should you abandon SEO content/site? 
And invest that money/time somewhere else?

These are my own thoughts when working on Saiqic. 

Growing businesses via SEO content/websites is my bread & butter. 
& That’s the ‘manjan’ I sell, haha. 

But I can’t be biased and say; 
‘Hey, nothing has changed/died, you just pay me.’

Bcz the truth is, the industry is changing/evolving. 
& it’s fast, brutal, uncertain & full of hype. 

So, if you think you DO have a better alternative than investing time/money in your SEO(or GEO whatever u call)/content/site, then go ahead. Tell me, too. Cuz I can’t see any viable alternative for now for long-term organic growth. 

So I’m putting my time + resources into building Saiqic that way. 
Trying to implement all & any new things I learn. 

& if this year I fail to build Saiqic (& grow my business)...
I’ll probably leave this industry & grow vegetables & build a dairy farm haha. 

#mrsaiqo
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BOFu content on your blog is the FASTEST way to generate leads

(We’re implementing this on Saiqic, too)

Even if your site is brand new & you’re done with the homepage + service pages, and now you're thinking about what to publish on your blog to get leads. Go for BOFu content. 

I love to cover these 5 categories in BOFu.
1. problem -solution content 
2. Service intent blogs 
3. Comparison & alternatives
4. Case studies + proof content  
4. Pricing, ROI, etc. 

This is what I call a prospect-first content strategy. 
And I’ve tried it so many times & it worked wonders every single time. 

But there’s much to think & consider when you’re devising a prospect-first content strategy. 

& I’ve covered every damn thing in this 2k+ words blog post
https://lnkd.in/dys5h6gU

Give it a read if you want to. 
& share it if you like. 

#mrsaiqo
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I hate to admit this…but when a client asks how much traffic/leads they’ll get in a certain time span…
I usually don’t have any answer. 

I can’t promise traffic/leads. 
Not bcz I don’t know my thing. 
But bcz there’s no exact parameter to measure both. 

So what do I usually answer when a client asks this question?

I become transparent & admit there are no pet-guaranteed numbers… but based on the goals & industry, & how I’m going to approach the content strategy, here are the ‘expected results’. We’ll get this much around this time period.

But no fixed ranking positionpromise. No exact number of leads.
We're sure move the needle within 90 days.
Improvements start coming in the first month. 
But can’t predict how much. 

Because that's how it works. 
You gotta trust. 
#mrsaiqo
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